Well, I finally had time to sit and wait for kde to compile on my SunBlade 100 Everything works great (for the most part) The only thing that is bugging me that I can't seem to fix is how to turn off the speaker on blade.

I've tried using KMix but its slider thingy's don't seem to have any effect on the sound at all. The aRts control program will however will control the volume.

I have external speakers hooked up (to line out) and would like the sound to only come out of those, not the aweful internal speaker.

I had the same problem with an SUN Ultra60. I think there is no way to disable the internal speaker with anykind of mixer program under linux. The only way I found out to disable it was to unplug the internal speaker connector from the mainboard. Because I do not need the internal speaker for anything. Check the technical documentation of your machine where to find this connector on your machine:

Yeah, I've figured that out, but I still can't control the volume to the speaker itself. I want to listen to music through my headphones, which I can, but it also comes out of the darn speaker at the same time too, and I can't get the volume to that to turn off without effecting my headphones as well.